The idea of putting a human to death sentence is harsh as much as they deserve it there are a couple of things the government should look at before continuing the death penalty as a punishment. There are arguments that start about being against the death penalty. First is there an error being made with the prosecution have we thought that made the person is innocent? Secondly, we citizens pay more for death penalty; state departments could be saving 2.3 million if we eliminated the death penalty. Lastly, there is an alternative to keeping criminals from the streets by sentencing life without parole; the suspect if being a murderer molester etc. the death penalty would just end their life for what they did something they actually deserve is to live in prison contemplating what they did wrong that to me is a better punishment. These three arguments are good to take into consideration. Most states have others have not. …show more content…
Yes in fact 4.1% of defendants that are sentenced to the death penalty are innocent. What is sad is that the person who actually committed the crime is out free continuing to commit the crime. There is a stat, which states that the innocence of more than 200 prisoners still in the system may never be recognized. If there is a wrong conviction and the innocent person gets executed the problem then is in the court system not in the death penalty but even then if there were no death penalty they would keep searching for the persons innocence. That which then leads to instead of sentencing the person to a death penalty sentencing them to life with out parole if then the person is innocent they will be let go and back to the